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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Helping with Natural Disaster Relief
Natural disasters are a part of everyones life either directly or indirectly. I think that we can develop more scientifically literate and compassionate students by teaching our students about natural disaster relief as well as the disaster itself. One idea I had to get students more involved with disaster relief was to start by having students bring in non perishable food items, toys, cloths, toilet paper, candles, soap, and any other item folks might need during a disaster. We could then package these items and send them to the area in need via our local Red Cross or other organization that helps in disaster relief.
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You could also have different grade levels be in charge of different things and put together kits. For example maybe 4th grade is all in chage of bringing in tolietry items, othes could be in charge of blankets etc.
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ReplyDeleteI think that this is a great idea as well. We have recently been bringing in items to our son's school to help people in the community that need help due to the flooding of the Susquehanna River (the homes directly affected are just a few blocks from his school). Even though my son is still small, he understands that he is bringing in food to help his friend's family; he actually wanted to clear our cupboards to help out!
I wanted to suggest a website that might be helpful in finding people in need in the community:
http://www.dosomething.org/
Amy :)